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Conversation No. 419-8

Date: March 12, 1973
Time: 2:33 pm - 3:02 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

John E. Nidecker
-Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-State Department
-Deputy Inspector general
-Travel
-Bicentennial
-[First name unknown] Roosevelt [?]
-Travel the nations

President's schedule
-Associated Press [AP] appearance
-Paul Miller
-Henry A. Kissinger’s appearance
-American Society of Magazine Editors [ASME] [?] function
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President's press conference [?]
-Format

President’s schedule
-ASME function
-Date
-Latin America trip
-Timing
-Africa trip
-President's meeting with Giulio Andreotti
-Vacation planning
-One-day stops
-Compared to Europe
-Meetings
-Dinners
-Luncheons
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Africa
-Length of stay
-State dinner
-Brazil, Venezuela
-Peru [?]
-Mexico City
-Americans
-Radicals
-Argentina
-Central America
-Guatemala
-Nicaragua
-Costa Rica
-Panama
-Honduras
-El Salvador

John D. Ehrlichman talked with the President between 2:38 pm and 2:41 pm

[Conversation No. 419-8A]
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[See Conversation No. 37-96]

[End of telephone conversation]

Congressional relations
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Appearance before joint session of Congress
-Value
-Publicity for President
-Appearances before Congress
-Public relations [PR]
-Richard A. Moore
-Utility
-Ehrlichman’s view of Congressional appearances
-Symbolism
-Publicity
-Television [TV] audience
-President’s tax proposals
-Congressional response
-Timing
-National press conference
-President’s appearance before Congress
-Issues
-Foreign and domestic
-Ehrlichman’s choice
-Presidential staff viewpoint
-Patrick K. Buchanan
-Problems compared to opportunities
-Negatives
-Indians
-Impoundment
-Executive privilege
-Repression of press

PR
-Haldeman’s study
-President’s public appearances, speeches, press conferences
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-President’s approval rating
-Polls
-George H. Gallup poll
-President’s desire for conclusiveness
-Lead stories in press
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-“Lucky break”
-Impact of President’s policies
-Economic suffering
-Food prices
-Negative compared to positive increase in approval rating
-POWs
-Role of domestic issues
-President’s approval rating
-Economic conditions
-Prices and wages
-Press distortion
-Perfection
-Fault and blame

White House staff
-Charles W. Colson
-Contact with President
-Election campaign period
-Post-election period
-Utility to President
-Arrangements
-Frequency
-Forthcoming meetings with Haldeman
-Value
-Good ideas
-Balance
-Domestic issues
-Credit
-Colson
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Praise for Howard J. Phillips
-Rhetoric
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-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-“Great Society” programs
-Publicity for President's domestic programs
-Conservatives
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Centrists
-Taxes compared to social services
-Concern for poor, cost

President's public appearances
-National Press Club
-Establishment of dominance of dialogue
-Methods
-Travel
-Periodic stops in localities
-South Carolina
-Mississippi
-John C. Stennis
-Midwest
-Watergate
-End of Vietnam War
-Foreign travel
-State visits
-Latin American travel
-Value
-Colombia
-Venezuela
-Brazil
-Jamaica
-Caribbean

PR
-Domestic issues
-Ehrlichman
-Trade
-Inflation
-Compared to Vietnam War
-US News and World Report article
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-Survey, predictions
-Housewives
-Public complaints
-Prices, quality, services
-Crime
-Administration's strategy

President's schedule
-Vacation
-August
-Travel
-Congressional recess
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] convention
-New Orleans
-Arrangements
-Congressional recess
-California
-Labor Day appearance
-Vacation
-August
-Weather
-July schedule
-Preparation
-Compared to State of the Union

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:41 pm.

President's meeting with Col. Robinson Risner
-Risner’s location
-West Wing

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:02 pm.

Unknown person’s staff position
-Extension
-July
-Camp David
-Haldeman’s opinion of staff member
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-Aspen Lodge
-Maitre d’ hotel
-Successor
-Civilian employment

Spiro T. Agnew
-President’s return to Oval Office
-Office space [?]
-Roy L. Ash [?]

Haldeman left at 3:02 pm.